Indonesia plans to ‘force-feed dealers with their own drug supply’ to win narcotic war

Indonesia is attempting to curb their drug problems with harsh new punishments. Among the considered penalties are drug deals being force-feed their own narcotics supply until they die. And prisons guarded with tigers, crocodiles and piranhas. The country already has incredibly tough sentences for convicted drug dealers, including death by firing squad.

While in 2015 reports emerged that eight drug smugglers (One Indonesian native, two Australians, four Nigerians and a Brazilian) were singing hymns and praying as they waited to be killed near a prison on the isle of Nusakambangan, Central Java. Although the Indonesian government say the penalties have done little to reduce drug abuse – which is thought to kill 33 people in the country every day.

Police have increased raids on suspected dealers, including one raid which resulted in four deaths – including one officer and an informant. Some have criticised the tough approach, as they believe the proposed laws fail to distinguish between users and dealers. ''We have to fight this war on drugs everywhere,’ Hendro Pandowo, a police chief who oversaw the raid told Al Jazeera.

‘They have to be cleaned off the streets of Jakarta and eradicated throughout Indonesia.’